Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought Fritz Ebert to the front of his party. His voice was more than once heard in the support of militarism. If Germany won the War, the workers would share in the foreseen prosperity; if Germany lost, the workers would be rid of the Kaiser. Several times he sat in council with the All Highest; and when the War ended and the Kaiser fled, Ebert succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor. In such a position, he became the logical choice as President of the Republic...
...weeks of frightened freshmanhood, the one thing he had in common with other scared freshmen, the one thing which gave him a sense of "belonging" amid the vast impersonal vacuum of a great university, the one voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge relish of Copey's jokes. They passed around the college from tongue to tongue with the dizzy...
...prosperity of the Gillette Co. has been shared in by its stockholders. Until 1917, the Company was a rather close corporation. In that year, however, it offered to the public its common stock at $80 per share. In February, 1920, stockholders were offered the right to subscribe to new common at $100, on the basis of the new share per ten old shares. On Nov. 1, 1924, a stock dividend was declared and, on Dec. 1, the company was recapitalized. For an investment of $8,000 in September, 1917, and $1,000 more in February, 1920, the investor...
...notoriously feast -or -famine character of the railway equipment business was illustrated by the annual report of the Baldwin Locomotive Co. for 1924. In 1923, the company's net profit before dividends was $6,516,465, or $25.58 on each of the 200,000 common shares, after paying the 7% dividend on the 200,000 preferred shares. In consequence, after paying $1,400,000 on both its preferred and common stock, profit and loss surplus was brought up to $19,847,242. Last year, however, net before dividends was only $1,320,026, or only $6.60 on each preferred share...
...common stock capitalization of the company amounts to about $100,000,000 and consists of 2,000,000 Class A and 2,000,000 Class B shares. Both classes have a par value of $25 per share. Almost all this stock is at present owned by J. Ogden Armour and his family. Mr. Armour's own interest consists of between 600,000 and 700,000 shares of each issue. Since 1922, when serious readjustments were made in the company's affairs, he has planned to sell out a substantial part of his holdings and now a banking syndicate...